Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 29 15:28:36 EST 2008 | jmelson
Well, I don't know if you want to muck around this much, but I bought a GE (Chinese made, of course) toaster oven with convection fan. Nice big glass door in front, you can use it in bake, broil, toast or convection oven mode. The only thing missin
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 30 15:47:13 EST 2008 | tonyamenson
Just my humble opinion. Every place I've worked at uses x-ray over optical inspection for BGAs. Companies that had both often let the optical inspector collect dust becuase you can only really inspect the perimeter solder balls. Not to mention you c
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 31 18:14:40 EST 2008 | boardhouse
Hi Felix, First thing to verify is that your supplier is actually suppling you with the correct material. China is known for not keeping with the requested materials and will substitute if not controlled. I would recomend ITEQ, TUC or Nan ya for of
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 04 19:24:37 EST 2008 | swag
We have an Advantis and it's great for low volume, high mix (flexjet head). If you have good CAD data to upload, it takes little time to program as you can update vision on parts and placements while you are actually building boards ("NPI mode"). I
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 04 09:42:57 EST 2008 | tonyamenson
I just discovered my reflow oven exhaust had no suction and I'm fixing it now. What I want to know is what happened to my process. FYI. The exhaust from my other oven was getting kicked back into the faulty oven because of this loss of suction. The
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 05 11:35:58 EST 2008 | dphilbrick
I have been using an Advantek machine for years. It is a manual load and really works good. Rarely do we have problems. When we do its because we got parts from an egineer that dumped a tube of parts out on their desk to get one part and then put the
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 05 14:00:35 EST 2008 | danlewis
Tony SMT, Have you looked into alternative services? I haven't performed a cost analysis lately, but with the equipment costs, tape & reel costs, cover tape handling issues, manual steps involved from someone who doesn't perform the task on a regula
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 26 17:00:15 EST 2008 | slthomas
I haven't had the luxury of machine based pth assembly in quite a while, but when I did, given that the machines control which parts are inserted (and to a lesser degree where they are inserted) we decided not to perform inspection on that part of th
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 03 23:24:06 EST 2008 | Mag10
I have a project to evaluate solderability of various metals or plated finish. I'd like to tap in to get some advise. The project is to evaluate solderability of various metals or plated finishes for RF shield application with reflow. Due to the hig
Electronics Forum | Thu Mar 13 10:41:13 EDT 2008 | slthomas
I don't know who's driving the bus there, but I personally would just tell my boss that it couldn't be done without: (1) compromising the quality and reliability of the product (2) increasing the cost to manufacture the product (3) increasing the scr
